In this article I’m going to present a comparison between the struggles that you’ll face in your training sessions and how training should help you to prepare for the real world struggles that we all have to overcome each day. I have seen thousands of people come and go from many gyms/studios each week forContinue reading “Comparison – Life lessons learned in training”
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5 convenient and healthy snack ideas
Introduction Finding a convenient and healthy snack nowadays can be hard if you don’t know what you are looking for. Our newsagents and supermarkets are full of sugary, processed and bad fat containing items. There are a handful of farm shops and stores that do cater for the health concious and there are options withinContinue reading “5 convenient and healthy snack ideas”
5 ways to reduce the effect of DOMS
Introduction In my experience DOMS (short for Delayed Onset Muscular Soreness), is one of the most common factors that stop many newbies from achieving their training and transformation goals. Usually, one of two things happen. The trainee dramatically reduces their training output, resulting in the individual not getting a great enough stimulus to force theContinue reading “5 ways to reduce the effect of DOMS”
Real Core Training
Introduction I have been requested to do a post today on core training. Lets start by first understanding the definition of the “core.” The core is a group of muscles that stabilises the torso including the spine and the vital organs. The core consists of the following muscles that work as a team to createContinue reading “Real Core Training”
Why should women lift weights?
Introduction For fat loss and muscle tone at least, the thing that I hear many women ask is, “what’s the best thing that I can do to achieve this goal?” Is it cardio? Are classes better? How about abdominal training because thats the area I want to lose my ‘weight’ from? STOP!!! Allow me toContinue reading “Why should women lift weights?”
There’s more to Personal Training than Grueling Workouts
Introduction When I first started Personal Training (Over 16 years ago) I wanted to help my clients to exercise safely, make their training more effective with the new knowledge that I had gained for my personal training courses and help them to improve thier lives in the fastest possible time. I had no idea atContinue reading “There’s more to Personal Training than Grueling Workouts”
New Year Resolution’s – How to make them work
Introduction Setting your resolutions for new year is the easy part but staying on the right path to achieve them is slightly more challenging. I want to share with you an easy technique that will almost guarantee success in whatever you goals are. This technique can be applied to almost every aspect of life fromContinue reading “New Year Resolution’s – How to make them work”
How to get through the Christmas holidays without feeling like you’ve blown your training and diet
Introduction During the Christmas period many people that are health conscious, exercise regularly and pay attention to their dietary requirements worry about what they are going to do on Christmas day itself. Some questions that you may find yourself asking are; Am I going to blow all of the hard work that I’ve put inContinue reading “How to get through the Christmas holidays without feeling like you’ve blown your training and diet”
Simple Guidelines for a healthy balanced lifestyle
Introduction In this post I’m going to cover some very easy implementable hacks to improve GPP (General Physical Preparedness), control fat gain, promote fat loss and maintain a reasonable level of physical strength. Walking Walking for health is quite possibly the most underrated form of exercise. Walking is an easily implemented method of light exerciseContinue reading “Simple Guidelines for a healthy balanced lifestyle”
